DOMESTIC RELATIONS - STATUTORY ABOLITION OF CERTAIN CAUSES OF ACTION

Authors

George A. Rinker S.Ed., University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

ln response to widespread and vigorous criticism of the abuses practiced through the use of the action at law for breach of promise to marry, and to a lesser extent, the actions for alienation of affections, criminal conversation, and seduction, several states enacted legislation designed to eliminate the evils complained of by abolishing some or all of those causes of action. The purpose of the present discussion is to analyze and compare the various statutes, and to indicate how they have fared in the courts; in short, to survey the whole reform program as it stands twelve years after the first statute was passed.

Recommended Citation

George A. Rinker S.Ed., DOMESTIC RELATIONS - STATUTORY ABOLITION OF CERTAIN CAUSES OF ACTION, 47 Mich. L. Rev. 383 (1949).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol47/iss3/6